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KENYA ITINERARY: download Reservation Form here
Day 01 November 4, 2024 Nairobi
JAMBO - KARIBU!! On arrival at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, proceed to your hotel for check in. Transfers will be arranged once air is purchased. In the afternoon, join your group for a bus tour of Nairobi. The rest of the day is at leisure.
Overnight: Sarova Stanley Hotel or similar
Day 02 November 5, 2024 Nairobi B, L
After breakfast enjoy a day tour that includes a visit to the Daphne Sheldrick's Elephant Orphanage, lunch at the Karen Blixen Coffee Garden Restaurant and a visit to the Karen Blixen Museum; once the home of the Danish author of 'Out of Africa'. Next you will visit the Giraffe Centre for a chance to interact with Africa’s tallest animal, the Rothschild giraffe. Return to Nairobi for time to relax. Tomorrow you are heading out on safari.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
Overnight: Sarova Stanley Hotel or similar
 
Kissing the Rothchild giraffe 2005 Karen Blixen Museum, Nairobi 2005
Day 03 November 6, 2024 Nairobi/Samburu Game Reserve B, L, D
After breakfast, you will drive further north to the Samburu National Reserve, set in the rugged semi-arid northern region with spectacular scenic landscape. On arrival, enjoy a short siesta before heading for an afternoon game viewing drive. The verdant riverine forest is a stark contrast to the arid thorn studded plains. The Samburu region is the best place to find several endemic Northern species; including the Gerenuk (twiga gazelle) due to her long neck, the beisa Oryx, the Reticulated Giraffe, the Somali ostrich and Grevy’s Zebra. Samburu is also an ornithological paradise, home to many birds including local species such as the Palm Nut Vulture and the Vivacious Dove. Leopards are often seen at dusk. The Samburu culture is a truly fascinating one, sharing a great deal of ancestral and linguistic ties to the Maasai. The entire Samburu region is a place of breath taking and magical beauty, a place where the vision of a deep red sunset silhouetting the doum palms along the river as a leopard emerges to hunt brings the perfect end to a day on safari...... Dinner and overnight at the camp.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Overnight: Samburu Intrepids Safari camp or similar
Day 04 & 05 November 7 & 8, 2024 Samburu Game Reserve B, L, D
Spend these two days in Samburu with morning and afternoon game viewing drives in both Samburu and Buffalo Springs game reserves. These game reserves provide some of the best and most colourful game viewing in the country. The Ewaso Nyiro River which meanders through the vast, dry, doum palm dominated reserve bringing life along the green, scenic river banks, home and refuge to many wildlife. Visit to Samburu Manyatta Village to see the how the tribe lives.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Overnight: Samburu Intrepids Safari camp (2 nights) or similar
Day 06 November 9, 2024 OlPejeta Conservancy B, L, D
After breakfast, you will depart for Ol Pejeta Conservancy arriving at your tented camp in time for lunch. You will enjoy a game drive in this game conservancy with a visit to the Chimpanzee Sanctuary, a charming haven established by the Jane Goodall Institute to provide sanctuary to orphaned chimps, and the specially protected refuge of black rhino. The camp overlooks one of the busiest waterholes in the area and offers an astounding variety of animals including all the Big Five and myriad of plains game.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Overnight: Sweetwaters Tented Camp - Morani Wing or similar
Day 07 November 10, 2024 Ol Pejeta Conservancy B, L, D
This full day will be spent in Ol Pejeta Conservancy on two extensive game viewing drives per day. Breakfast, lunch at Sweetwaters before moving on to the Mount Kenya Safari Club. The Mount Kenya Safari Club was once the orginal retreat of movie star William Holden.
Dinner and overnight is an opportunity to relax and enjoy some of Kenya's best accommodations.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Overnight: Mount Kenya Safari Club, Fairmont Deluxe Room or similar
Optional activity:
Visit the home and final resting place of Lord and Lady Baden
Powell, founders of Scout and Guides.
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Day 08 November 11, 2024 Lake Nakuru National Park B, L, D
After breakfast you depart for Lake Nakuru National Park with a brief stop for a breath-taking view of Thompson's Falls. You will arrive at Lake Nakuru in time for lunch. This afternoon you enjoy a game viewing drive. The park is one of the best game viewing parks with various animal species including prides of lion, Cape buffalo, waterbucks, wart hogs, the endangered Rothschild giraffes, the black & white Rhino, the Burchell’s zebra, impalas, and the elusive leopard among many others. Over 300 bird species have been recorded here. Lake Nakuru National Park is one of the best places to see the endangered black and white Rhino
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Overnight: Sarova Lion Hill Game Lodge or similar
Day 09 November 12, 2024 Masai Mara Game Reserve B, L, D
After breakfast, you continue to Masai Mara. It is perhaps the only region left in Kenya where the visitor may see animals in the same super-abundance as existed a century ago. Enjoy a game viewing drive enroute to the camp. Arrive for lunch and some relaxation time. In the afternoon you will participate on another game viewing drive in this vast and expansive reserve teeming with game. Mara game reserve is famous for her big five. The Big Five include the lion, Cape buffalo, the savanna elephant, black rhino and the elusive leopard. The vast savanna grasslands as far as the eye can see is home to impalas, Maasai giraffes, waterbucks, warthogs, Thompson & Grants gazelles, topis, the resident wildebeests among many others.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Overnight: Mara Ngenche Safari Camp or similar
Day 10 & 11 November 13 & 14, 2024 Masai Mara Game Reserve B, L, D
On these two days, you will have an option of either enjoying two extensive game viewing drives per day or departing with packed lunch boxes for a full day of game viewing. Be on the look-out for the big five that Maasai Mara is famous for. These include the lion, savannah (African) elephant, the Cape buffalo, the leopard and the black rhino.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Overnight: Mara Mgenche Safari Camp (2 nights) or similar
Optional activity: Dawn Balloon Safari over the Masai Mara
Mount Kilimanjaro
Day 12 November 15, 2024 Amboseli National Park B, L, D
A leisurely morning with breakfast then check out. You will then be transferred to the Airstrip for your flight to Wilson Airport. Here you will enjoy the safarilink lounge with access to light snacks and beverages before connecting to your flight to Amboseli National Park.
Scheduled Flight: Masai Mara - Wilson 1100 1220hrs; Wilson – Amboseli 1400 1440hrs
You will be met by your Twiga guide/driver upon arrival, enjoy an extensive afternoon game viewing drive. Set in rolling savannah scenery, it is dwarfed by the presence of the pink-tinged, snow-capped peak of Mount Kilimanjaro. Amboseli National Park is also an ornithological paradise with over 400 species of birds, all manner of reptilian, flora and fauna and some of the most soul-searing views in Africa. Late afternoon, you will proceed to your lodge for check in.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Overnight: Amboseli Serena Safari Lodge or similar
Day 13 November 16, 2024 Amboseli National Park B, L, D
Spend the full day in Amboseli National Park with two game drives per day. This location exhibits one of Kenya’s most spectacular displays of wildlife - lion, elephant, leopard, rhino, cheetah, buffalo and hosts of plains' game.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Overnight: Amboseli Serena Safari Lodge or similar
Day 14 November 17, 2024 Saturday Homebound fight/ or to Tanzania starting in Arusha B, TRSF L
Amka! After breakfast for those heading home, check out and head to the Nairobi airport for your international flight home. For those heading to Tanzania more excitement is yet come.
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Kenya Safari based on double occupancy
Price includes:
$495.00 USD Kenyan Park Fee Tax
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USD $7,850.00 |
| Kenya Single Supplement |
USD $1,500.00 |
| Optional Tanzania extension based on double occupancy (open only to those participating in the Kenya Safari) |
USD $3,880.00 |
| Tanzania Single Supplement |
USD $440.00 |
| Deposit at time of booking |
USD $800.00
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Deposit is non-refundable if you cancel. Travel insurance is recommended.
Download reservation form, here!
and return with deposit.
Feb. 1- So pleased to say this trip for women is FULL!
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NOTE: International air is not included, please ask for a quote departing from your home base. A group price will be quoted by tour company.
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Price includes:
Transfers from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport for group on arrival/departure and to Kilimanjaro International Airport on departure
All local taxes on accommodation and sightseeing tours
All local transfers as per itinerary
Hotel accommodations as listed or similar
Meals as outlined in the itinerary
All general admissions as per itinerary
Domestic air as per itinerary
Sightseeing tours as mentioned in the itinerary with local English-speaking tour guides
Flying Doctors Cover while on safari
Going Places Together escort throughout
And "Many hours of happy memories!"
5 women with driver and escort on tour
in Kenya 2005 with Going Places Together
Price does not include:
International air
Personal items
Meals not listed in the itinerary
Tips & Gratuities
Early check-in & late check out of rooms
Travel insurance (Recommended)
All optional extras (balloon ride Kenya and Tanzania, Day trip to Lord Baden Powell's home)
Passport fee, visa fees
- Taxes and fuel surcharges are subject to change
- All prices are subject to change
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OPTIONAL TANZANIA ITINERARY:
Amboseli November 17- November 24, 2024 This portion of the safari tour is only open to those participating in Kenya,Tours for Women
The Nogorogoro Crater at sunset
Day 14 November 17, 2024 Amboseli National Park / Arusha / Ngorongoro Conservation Area B,L,D
After breakfast check out of your accommodation depart for Arusha via Namanga border. You will drive to the Ngorongoro conservation area arriving in time to check in and lunch. This afternoon relax and enjoy the panoramic views of the crater, the largest unbroken caldera in the world.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Overnight: Ngorongoro Sopa Lodge or similar
Day 15 & 16 November 18 & 19, 2024 Ngorngoro Conservation Area - Serengeti National Park B,L,D
After breakfast for the next two days, you descend some 610 metres into the crater, home to an abundance of wildlife and a photogenic paradise; for a full day of game-viewing drive with picnic lunch. Ngorongoro Crater, the largest intact caldera in the world, teams with an abundance of wildlife who permanently reside on the crater floor. Prides of lions, herds of Cape buffalo, rhino, golden & black-backed jackal, zebra, hippo, cheetah, leopard and the spotted hyena freely roam on the crater floor plains. The crater is also a home to hundreds of bird species, who can be found refreshing in the small lakes in the crater floor. Unmatched for its natural variety & breath-taking beauty, there are few places on earth where such a tremendous diversity of landscapes exist inside a region this size. Apart from its wildlife riches, the crater is also of great archaeological importance, with the remains of some of mankind’s earliest ancestors discovered in the area.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Overnight: Ngorongoro Sopa Lodge or similar
Day 17 November 20, 2024 Ngorngoro Conservation Area - Serengeti National Park B,L,D
After breakfast depart for Serengeti National Park with a brief stop at the Olduvai Gorge, one of the most important prehistoric sites in the world to learn about human evolution. Enjoy an on informative talk about the interpretation of the gorge by the resident guide before continuing to the Serengeti Sopa Lodge for lunch. This afternoon experience game viewing at Serengeti National Park, which covers an area of 14,763 square kilometres. The world famous Serengeti National Park is Tanzania's oldest park, and one of the world's last great wildlife refuges. The Serengeti ecosystem supports the greatest remaining concentration of plains game in Africa, including more than three million large mammals.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Overnight: Serengeti Sopa Lodge or similar
Day 18 November 21, 2024 Serengeti National Park B,L,D
Enjoy a full day of game viewing drives. In the early morning and evening light the Serengeti landscape is stunningly beautiful. The park is home to the black-manned lion, the savannah elephant, Cape buffalo, wildebeests, leopard, cheetah, spotted & stripped hyena, rhino, topi, burchelle’s zebra, and the Masai giraffe among many others. Serengeti is also home to hundreds of bird species including the ostrich and bizarre secretary bird, and the black eagles.
OPTIONAL ACTIVITY: Dawn Balloon Safari over the Serengeti plains ending with a champagne breakfast.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch (packed lunch box), Dinner
Overnight: Serengeti Sopa Lodge or similar
Day 19 November 22, 1024 Serengeti National Park/ Lake Manyara National Park B,L,D
After an early breakfast depart for Lake Manyara National Park. Arrive in time for lunch and chenk in. This afternoon enjoy an extensive game viewing drive of the park which apart for its abundant bird life, is known for its tree-climbing lions. Return to the lodge for dinner and overnight.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Overnight: Lake Manyara Serena Lodge or similar
Day 20 November 23, 2024 Depart Kenya for home Breakfast
Today after breakfast you will be transferred to Arusha. On arrival enjoy lunch at a city restaurant before your transfer to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport for your flight home.
Meals: Breakfast, lunch
This is the end of our services, until we are Going Places Together again!
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